18 Youth

名称：18 Youth
内容简介：
晨读英语美文 励志感悟
[00:00.53]Youth
[00:04.25]Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;
[00:11.80]it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
[00:15.96]it is a matter of will, a quality of imagination,a vigor of the emotions;
[00:22.74]it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
[00:25.80]Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,
[00:32.26]of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
[00:35.76]This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.
[00:41.45]Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
[00:45.28]We grow old by deserting our ideals.
[00:48.67]Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
[00:55.23]Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
[01:02.67]Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,
[01:10.01]the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living.
[01:15.70]In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station:
[01:21.18]so long as it receives messages of beauty,hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite,
[01:29.81]so long as you are young.
[01:31.89]When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,
[01:41.08]then you are grown old, even at 20,
[01:44.03]but as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism,
[01:48.08]there is hope you may die young at 80.